History Series / GamingInTheClintonYears

* ItWillNeverCatchOn: From his ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997'' review: "No one buys a game specifically for multiplayer options." Little did he know then that the game would be a [[GenreTurningPoint turning point]] for the FirstPersonShooter genre, ''especially'' multiplayer [=FPSes=].

It had a small following, being a local public-access show, but would have been LostForever, had Wood not joined a video gaming association called [=NAViGaTR=][[note]]The National Association of Video Game Testers and Reviewers[[/note]], who archived the entire series, edited each episode and put it onto Website/YouTube as renamed ''Gaming in the Clinton Years''. This is how most people know of Wood.

** Pretty much the entirety of the UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn59uDlvmCo hardware review]].

-->''We have a challenge to EIDOS. In Tomb Raider 3, create a storyline in which Lara gets breast cancer. Imagine the drama of a vulnerable Lara Croft still persisting on her worldly adventures despite her illness. It needs fleshing out, no pun intended, but we guarantee the gaming world would be shocked, stunned, and moved by the effort to make Lara's character more meaningful.''

In the mid-1990s, a man named George Wood created a TV show dedicated to video games on a Maryland public-access channel, called ''Flights of Fantasy,'' much to the uproar of the gaming community. The show gained quite a few detractors; Wood was not known for his playing skills, research or good taste, was something of a poor man's Adam Sessler, and the production was rather cheap. He would also tend to go off-topic, sometimes markedly so, in a very fervent manner.

* FakingTheDead: According to [=NAVIGaTR=], Wood allegedly died between 2006 and 2008. However, in 2009, a video showed up on Website/YouTube showing [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLsGEKas11A George Wood on a local talk show talking about President Obama.]] Not to mention that [=NAViGaTR=] had been making a huge fuss about George Wood in anticipation for their big Halloween cruise party, in such a way that if he isn't alive then [[DudeNotFunny it's pretty disrespectful]] - not to mention how [=NAVIGaTR=] publicly and loudly claim his cause of death was a drug overdose, which is something you wouldn't really want to publicize regardless of whether someone were dead or alive. To this day, [=NAVIGatR=] is still very "nudge nudge wink wink" about his supposed death and it's hard to get the actual truth of the matter out of them.

* ThisIsGoingToBeHuge: Wood [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yApQi0yRpqc apparently believed]] that the ''UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy'' would be ''more successful than the PlayStation''.

* VideoGame3DLeap: Wood criticized ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' for being a presentation upgrade rather than a total upgrade, in contrast to his expectations.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Possibly. See FakingTheDead.

* ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow: [[invoked]] Wood believes that if you don't like ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'', then you are '''STUPID!'''
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Wood apparently believes that the live-action [[Film/StreetFighter Street Fighter movie]] is canon to the series, as during the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha 2'' review he complains that Dhalsim looks nothing like he did in the movie, and claims that Charlie is Blanka in the past.

** ''"The station is completely deserted. No one is in the building."''

* FakingTheDead: According to [=NAVIGaTR=], Wood allegedly died between 2006 and 2008. However, in 2009, a video showed up on Website/YouTube showing [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLsGEKas11A George Wood on a local talk show talking about President Obama.]] Not to mention that [=NAViGaTR=] had been making a huge fuss about George Wood in anticipation for their big Halloween cruise party, in such a way that if he isn't alive than [[DudeNotFunny it's pretty disrespectful]] - not to mention how [=NAVIGaTR=] publicly and loudly claim his cause of death was a drug overdose, which is something you wouldn't really want to publicize regardless of whether someone were dead or alive. To this day, [=NAVIGatR=] is still very "nudge nudge wink wink" about his supposed death and it's hard to get the actual truth of the matter out of them.

** Pronounced {{Konami}} as "Konammy" in a few reviews.
** "Tahtooin" and "Maleenium Falcun" in his ''Super Star Wars'' walkthrough.

* StoryToGameplayRatio: One of Wood's complaints about ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' is that the game had ''too much'' gameplay to story. One wonders what he'd think of ''MetalGearSolid4''.

In the mid-1990s, a man named George Wood created a TV show dedicated to video games on a Maryland public-access channel, called ''Flights of Fantasy,'' much to the uproar of the gaming community. The show gained quite a few detractors; Wood was not known for his playing skills, research or good taste, and the production was rather cheap. He would also tend to go off-topic, sometimes markedly so, in a very fervent manner.

* DoubleEntendre: "I'm your morning Wood, with an overactive Wii."

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Pronounced {{Konami}} as "Konammy" in a few reviews.
** Don't forget "Tahtooin" and "Maleenium Falcun" in his ''Super Star Wars'' walkthrough.

-->''[[PanderingToTheBase We have a challenge to EIDOS.]] [[Franchise/TombRaider In Tomb Raider 3]], [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed create a storyline in which]] [[ActionGirl Lara]] [[VictorianNovelDisease gets breast cancer.]] [[ThisIsGoingToBeHuge Imagine the drama of a vulnerable Lara Croft]] [[{{Determinator}} still persisting on her worldly adventures]] [[InformedAttribute despite her illness.]] [[IncrediblyLamePun It needs]] [[BlackComedy fleshing out,]] [[AuthorsSavingThrow no pun intended,]] [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee but we guarantee the gaming world would be]] [[InternetBackdraft shocked,]] [[FlatWhat stunned,]] [[BaseBreaker and moved]] [[AudienceAlienatingPremise by the effort]] [[CharacterDevelopment to make Lara's character more meaningful.]]''

** Pretty much the entirety of the VirtualBoy [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn59uDlvmCo hardware review]].

* ThisIsGoingToBeHuge: Wood [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yApQi0yRpqc apparently believed]] that the ''VirtualBoy'' would be ''more successful than the PlayStation''.

-> ''TV Tropes is truly perfect. If you do not browse this amazing new generation of wiki madness, you are '''stupid.''' Yes, I know it's insulting, but that's also the truth. If you're a [[NoTrueScotsman true trope fan]], you will not hesitate in the slightest bit to [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife binge on]] this piece of entertainment history.''

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Wood apparently believes that the live-action movie is canon to the series, as during the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha 2'' review he complains that Dhalsim looks nothing like he did in the movie, and claims that Charlie is Blanka in the past.

* FakingTheDead: According to [=NAVIGaTR=], Wood allegedly died between 2006 and 2008. However, in 2009, a video showed up on Website/YouTube showing [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLsGEKas11A George Wood on a local talk show talking about President Obama.]] Not to mention that [=NAViGaTR=] had been making a huge fuss about George Wood in anticipation for their big Halloween cruise party, in such a way that if he isn't alive than [[DudeNotFunny it's pretty disrespectful]] - not to mention how [=NAVIGaTR=] publicly and loudly claim his cause of death was a drug overdose, which is something you wouldn't really want to publicize regardless of whether someone were dead or alive.

* MoodWhiplash: Wood concludes his {{bias|SteamRoller}}-loaded gush-a-thon of a ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' review by showing the ''GameOver screen.''

* AnimeHair: George Wood sported a bright red hairdo in the last few videos credited to him.
** Other videos showed him wearing a rainbow hairdo as well.

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-->''[[PanderingToTheBase We have a challenge to EIDOS.]] [[Franchise/TombRaider In Tomb Raider 3]], [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed create a storyline in which]] [[ActionGirl Lara]] [[VictorianNovelDisease gets breast cancer.]] [[ThisIsGoingToBeHuge Imagine the drama of a vulnerable Lara Croft]] [[{{Determinator}} still persisting on her worldly adventures]] [[InformedAttribute despite her illness.]] [[IncrediblyLamePun It needs]] [[BlackComedy fleshing out,]] [[AuthorsSavingThrow no pun intended,]] [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee but we guarantee the gaming world would be]] [[InternetBackdraft shocked,]] [[FlatWhat stunned,]] [[BaseBreaker and moved]] [[AudienceAlienatingPremise by the effort]] [[CharacterDevelopment to make Lara's character more meaningful.]]''

* IAmNotShazam: George Wood is often mistakenly called [=NAViGaTR=], including by Retsupurae.

* IAmNotShazam: George Wood is often mistakenly called NAViGaTR, including by Retsupurae.

* ThisIsGoingToBeHuge: Wood [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yApQi0yRpqc apparently believed]] that the ''VirtualBoy'' would be more successful than the ''PlayStation''.